The Sun. — London, England, 1838-12-28 00:00:00

IRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Those tenants who suppose that the landlords will not make the present high price of corn a pretext for imposing a permanent burden on them are very simple indeed. A Correspondent informs us that all the Duke of Buccleugh's tenants, on the Kettering and Boughton estates, have been served with notices that their rents are to be raised, some of them as much as 2001. per year. In no case is the rise less than from 20 to 25 per cent. We state a fact—we blame not the Duke ; for high prices mean high rents. So that the farmers, who have been chuckling at the present high prices, will find to their cost that the burden for which the present high prices serve as a justification will press on them when prices fall, and they will purchase a year's prosperity by the Gazette and the workhouse. The Corn-laws have made agriculture a gambling pursuit ; but in the long run the landlord wins, and the farmer loses. While we are on this part of the subject, we may observe that the Standard does not under stand the gist of our reference to the Marquis of Tweeddale's speech at Eye. " Any one ignorant of the actual state of the law," says the Standard," reading this, would naturally suppose that the Corn-laws do not extend to Scotland ; whereas the fact is, that the Scottish and English farmers stand upon precisely the same footing as regards the protection of their interests." The Corn laws do extend to Scotland ; but the Scotch farmers soon perceived that though professedly passed for the farmers, they benefitted only the landlords. Of course the Scotch farmers suffered severely from the transition to low prices at the end of the war ; but they reconciled themselves to their lot, and knew better than to trust to such farmers' friends as the Marquis of Chandos. Tne evidence taken before the late Parliamentary Committees on agricultural listress shows, that the Scotch farmers did not con und their own interests with those of their land lords, and were sensible that what they had most to dread were great fluctuations in price. Ever since the peace, the cry of agricultural distress has con stantly resounded in Parliament ; but it is on evidence, that precisely during this period of agricultural distress, more capital has been laid out on improvements in Scotland than for a century before. It is the interest of the farmer that the landlord should leave rent to follow the natural prices of food, instead of attempting to create artificial prices for the sake of keeping up rent. The landowners at the Eye dinner dwelt much on the spirit of the yeomanry dur ing the last war. To hear these men, one might suppose that agriculture ceuld flourish without the aid of rich con sumers. The prosperity of agriculture in England began with the improvements in manufactures. We showed on Tuesday last that the population of England increased very little during the first three quarters of the last century. The reason why the population did not in crease was, that we were then exporters of food and importers of manufactures ; and the landlords, always selfish, and always disposed to rob the rest of the community, kept down wages by the facilities given to import manufactures, while they kept up the price of food by a bounty on its exportatio which only ceased in 1773. The landlords knew better than to feed mouths which could not pay for them, and rigorously enforced the laws of settlement, while they took care to prevent the erection of cottages by all manner of stipulations in leases. It ap pears that even so late as 1720, the greater part of the copper, brass, and cast-iron utensils for culinary and other purposes, porcelain, stone, deif, earthenware, fire-arms, and other engines of war, were imported from Holland and Hamburg ; while velvets, silks, mirrors, and crystal-glass of all kinds, bottles,watches, jewellery, coaches, chairs, gold and slyer laces, paper of all sorts, for writing, printing, and rooms, were imported from France and Italy ; and linen, cambrics and laces were imported from Flan ders, besides toys, and many other articles from Nuremburg, Frankfort, &c. The labouring classes were, by this lessening the demand for labour, and the raising the price of food, in a most miserable condition. Stephen Duck the Thresher Poet, whose verses were first published between 1730 and 1740, received 3s. a week, the common wages. While wages were lower in England than on the continent, the bounty on exportation enabled the manufacturers of Holland, Flanders, and France to buy food cheaper than the rate at which it could be bought by the manufacturers of England. The Dutch lost their ma factures by taxing hread enormously, which operated as a nounty to English manufactures ; and about the year 1760, the exports of manufactures became nearly equal to the imports. Several important inventions shortly after that period gave new life to manufactures, and England ceased to be an exporter of food, and became gradually a great exporter of manufactures. British prosperity dates from this new era. The population of England has tripled. Millions of well-paid labourers created an extensive demand for agricultural prodnce ; and while the cry of distress was universally heard during the American war, so great had been the increase of wealth, in consequence of the astonishing increase of the productiveness of labour through machinery, that the nation was able to support the high prices of corn and other food in 1795 and succeeding years. Holland lost her manufactures by taxing bread, and raising the necessary cost of labour. This gave a bounty to the English manufacturer. With the progress 'of manufactures in England the condition of the labourer has hitherto kept pace, more especially i❑ the manufacturing districts. The wages in the purely agricul tural districts. have not, it is true, improved in the same ratio as in the manufacturing dsstricts; but even in the agricultural districts labouring men are much better off even now than before the era of manufactures. If Stephen Duck received only 3s. a week when wheat was 40s. a quarter, the Wiltshire and Hampshire labourer, who now receives Bs. a week, is better off with wheat at 80s. Wages in Yorkshire and Lancashire were, however, in the early part of last century lower than in the 'West of England ; for the lowness of wages was the chief cause of driving manufacturers from the west to the north. But at present, the out-door labourer in Yorkshire and Lancashire receives 15s. a week and upwards. Were it not for the demand for labour in the manufacturing districts, the labourers in the west and south of England would soon become more wretched than they are ; for, though they are now at the mercy of the landlords, yet it is impossible to reduce to the very lowest plight the labourers in any part of a country in which high wages are given. A higher standard is constantly before the eyes of the labourer, and the attempt to take too great an advan tage of him leads to depredations, and such means of in timidation as were resorted to in 1830. The Manchester Guardian, alluding to a strange sentence in the Standard, is naturally led to contrast the labourers in manufacturing dis tricts with the labourers in agricultural districts : "' Ay I" says the Standard, " give cheap corn by all means I Ruin the landowner and farmer, and bring down the condition of the agricultural labourer to that of the factory slave, who must sell the flesh and blood of his infants.' " Now, considering that the men employed in factories earn, on an average, more than twice as much as able-bodied agricultural labourers, and that women, so employed, earn four times as much as when employed in agricultural labour —and considering also that the Editor of the Standard must be perfectly aware of these facts, from the reports of the Fac tory Commissioners—it must be admitted that the preceding remark is tolerably impudent. The agricultural labourers, if we mistake not, are now experiencing in full force the benefits of that dear corn which the Standard is so anxious to perpe tuate; and by and by they will be pretty well able to judge bow far it answers their purpose. The object of those who contend for cheap corn, is to prevent the manufacturing popu lation from being reduced to the state of the agricultural la bourers; and, if possible, to rescue the latter also from their present miserable condition. " We would advise the Standard to try to answer the facts and'the arguments contained in the speeches delivered at the Chamber of Commerce : it will be not, perhaps, quite so easy, but certainly much more reputable employment, than giving currency to misstatements which every man of the slightest research can detect in a moment." The manufacturing population must soon be reduced to the state of the agricultural labourers, if the landowners be not prevented from destroying our manufactures. The manufacturer cannot give higher wages than theprices he receives enable him to pay, and r p no act is more evident than that his prices are regulated by competition with fo reigners. The foreign manufacturer bring s into the market goods wrought by labourers fed on cheap corn, and it is the superiority of English machinery an d skill w hi c h has hitherto enabled the manufacturer to struggle a ga i nst the advantages possessed by his rival of cheaper food. But it appears that the superiority has left us in some branches— and in all the rest our rivals are every d ay making close approaches to us. During this painful process, the landowner looks on like a cold-blooded tyrant, and says, " I care not whether you go to ruin or not ; I will h ave my unjust tax from you as long as you have wherewithal to pay it, let what will come afterwards." When competitio n reduces profits and wages so low that the present prices cannot be paid, the produce of the soil will be consumed by unproductive labourers ; for it is not to be supposed that the millions of men who have been called into existence by manufactures will receive with submission the intimation that their only title to be a guest at Nature's feast is the posfession of the means of paying their reckoning. When capitalists have abandoned the devoted country the land willremain, and the increase of poor-rates will beat the landlords who are really the owners of the soil. The fa vourable change in England began with the reign of George 111., and the condition of all classes gradually improved with the increased demand for employment. But with the diminution of the demand for employment, caused by the loss of foreign markets, will come diminished wages, and, , . consequently, diminished means of purchasing food. Agri culture cannot flourish without flourishing manufac tures. This question, be it observod, is one between all t''e other classes of the country and the land owner. The decay of our trade leaves en all classes the same burdens with diminished means to meet them. The nation will be but a factory calculated, for instance, to pro- duce goods to the value of 100,0001. Suppose the pro duction diminished one-half, the charges and burdens can not be diminished in proportion, but remain nearly the same. There is less, of course, to distribute among the employers and the employed. A single master may discharge hands ; but the nation has the same number of hands, and those who are not employed increase the misery and diffi culty of those who are. Believing, as we do, that the sal vation of the country depends on the exertions made at this time to rescue the people from the greedy fangs of the landowners, we shall devote ourselves heart and soul to the great cause ; and knowing, as we do, the practical good sense of the industrious classes, we are convinced both that they will see the necessity of making at this time a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether ; and that their exertions will be crowned with success. The reign of in justice cannot be for ever. —Morning Chronicle. With unfeigned and deep gratification we perceive the proceedings of the Chamber of Commerce of Manchester, in favour of the abolition of the Corn Laws, to which we re cently adverted, followed up in different parts of the country, and by public and individual efforts, in a way which furnishes the most favourable prospect of the national sentiment compelling, in a short time, the abroga tion of an impost which has pressed so heavily on the in dustry and energies of the country. It only requires the general perception to be once awakened to the thorough appreciation of the evils accruing from the present system of Corn-laws, to excite such a demonstration in favour of their demolition, a 3 must render the acqui escence of the Legislature—biassed as it is towards the landed interests—a matter of inevitable necessity. And whatever difference of opinion may reasonably exist as to the eligibility of conceding to the Corn-law question the first place amongst the objects of public advocacy, there can be no second opinion reasonably and honestly enter tained of the advantages which the country generally, es pecially the manufacturing and commercial classes, would derive from every step towards the perfect freedom of trade, of which the annihilation of the Corn-laws is the most es sential preliminary. On Great Britain, as the most com mercial country in the world, and the most skilled and scientific in manufactures, must necessarily fall most griev ously every restriction on commercial intercourse; and therefore, as a question of legislative reform, we consider there is none to which public attention should be more zealously directed than to the annihilation of the Corn-law monopoly.—illorning Advertiser. At a moment like the present, when the efficiency of our navy is a subject of such paramount. importance, that subject cannot be kept too prominently before the Government and the public. Our Contemporary The Sun very properly recals our attention to a speech which Sir Edward Codrington delivered in the House of Commons in 1836, relative to the flagrant abuses which have long existed in the administration of the naval department of the public service. The gallant officer, in the speech in question, demonstrated, by the unanswerable logic of facts and figures, that the grounds on which persons are promoted in the navy have not the remotest con nection with the merits of the parties, but that these grounds are private influence, or the intrigues of friends. Sir Edward Codrington stated, on that occasion, to the House—and the statement has not been contradicted, because it does not admit of dispute—that there were then living 18 Major-Generals, who in twelre years hail been promoted to that distinguished rank, from being Lieutenant- Colonels ; while there were 54 Naval Captains, who had spent thirty-five years in the service, without either re ceiving promotion, or having the slightest prospect of it. This is a state of things which is alike discreditable to the Government and the Parliament of the country. The in genuity of man could not devise a more effectual means for bringing the naval service into disrepute and consequent in efficiency. Who that can help it would think of entering a service in which, supposing he were to prove the most meritorious sailor the country ever produced, his merits would not be of the smallest avail to him in the way of his promotion Or what in ducement has a young man who has entered the service to seek to distinguish himself in it, when he knows that no amount of merit as a sailor will be of any benefit to him ? But for the constitutionally patriotic feeling of Englishmen—a feeling which prompts to brave exploits when the occasion calls for it—so monstrous a sys tem must ere now have proved ruinous to the navy, and, by consequence, fatal to the empire ; for without her " wooden walls" and her " hearts of oak," what would England be ? It is high time that such a state of things were thoroughly reformed. Justice to those who have dis tinguished themselves in the service or who have spent a long course of years in it, and the country's good, equally demand that the passport to promotion shall no longer he interest, influence, intrigue, or anything ~ else of a similar kind ; but that the character or the length.of a person's ser vice in the navy shall be the only grounds on which such promotion shall take place. Until the existing state of things be changed, until the reform we are recommending be adopted, our navy will never be in that efficient condi tion which the interests of this country at all times, but especially at such a moment as the present, so imperatively require.—Morning Advertiser. We do not know whether all our readers are aware of the grand calamity with which this realm of England is threatened. We think it indeed most probable that some of them may not have seen the Ministerial Journals, and therefore not have prepared themselves for that which threatens us. We must then undertake the task of break ing to them this serious affair : " If you have tears prepare to shed them now." Well, then, the matte': is ° this—the sublime personages belonging to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, whom we had the honour of introducin gto the acquaintance of our readers in our Paper of the 25th instant, have actu ally given out that they have serious thoughts of leaving this country, and " all which it inherit," unless the Corn laws be " immediately repealed !" There, good readers, the murder is out, though not wholly so. Are you not thun derstruck? But take breath— ,. First recover that; And then you shall boar more." Lest, however, you should be utterly overcome, it is proper to inform you that the exodus or going forth of those wise men of Manchester is not yet irrevocably fixed. They only " have thoughts" of inflicting their absence upon the incorrigible landed gentry and aristocracy of this nation. They are, indeed, precisely in that state which Shakspeare attributes to Stephan° when he was not only desperately drunk, but drunkenly desperate—" Give me thy hand, I do begin to have bloody thoughts." As in all great actions of communities the lead must be taken by some illustrious in dividual, so in this mighty affair, which, beginning in the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, is to shake England to its centre, one Mr. Greg—that is, " Mr. R. H. Greg, of Quarry Bank," as we have already de scribed him to our readers—is to be the conspi cuous leader. Fortunately for the interests of alli teration, Greg the Great will sound most admirably in the recitations of those who in foreign lands commemorate England's obstinacy, and in her own language. We anti cipate this, because we must say, that we really do not an ticipate an instant repeal of the Corn-laws, consequent upon Mr. Greg's determination to quit the country—or his thoughts that way tending—unless such instant repeal should take place. 0.1 the contrary, such is the blindness of the people of England to the wisdom of Greg the Great, and to the value of his presence among them, that we really believe, instead of weeping and wailing at his departure, ho might chance to hear a repetition of the elegant couplet with which some of the original " Precusors" are said to hive blessed Lord Normanhy, when he lately left Ireland to" visit his estates in Yorkshire :" " Fair winds attend, as the Channel you cross, If you never come back, you'll be no great loss." Some people indeed are of opinion that the grossest piece of impertinence which has appeared in the papers for some time is this threat of certain manufacturers to go away from this country, and to take with them " their capital and skill." We do in some degree participate in this opinion, and having very much at heart the welfare of Eng land, we do confess that we should with no slight satis faction hear that to the exports of this kingdom were added all and singular the Greg, Smith, Cobden, and Dyer class of greedy grumblers, together with all that they can carry away with them. Common sense, reason ableness, and patriotism will make no part of their lug gage, and anything else that they take away tha country can very well spare. Mr. Greg, it is said, " manufactures a hundredth part of all the cotton imported into England." This, we doubt not, is mere fudge, or a flourish of that preposterous adulation which vulgar " cotton-lords" are so fond of receiving ; but if it were quite true, still we should soon find plenty of rich and ready manufacturers to supply the place of Mr. One per Cent. Greg. The sooner he goes the better. He cannot tak e w ith hi m our E ng li s h so il , w hi c h , thank s to protecting laws, is rich and beautiful ; and, as to his , we suppose he knows something of the exchanges, and therefore won't take it in gold. Of anything else that he may fancy to take it in, we can spare him the full amount, were be ten times as rich as his flatterers pretend he is. But, in truth, we fear not that he will go, but that he wont. These manufacturers are not quite so mad as they pretend to be. They know a hawk from a heron , s h, tw . They know the difference between the security of E n gland with its dear corn, and the insecurity of other countries where corn is much cheaper. They won't budge. N o ; Greg the Great will stay where he is, ruminating on his wrath upon the bank of hi s " quarry, " after the manner of Achilles on the Tr o jan shore. Nor need he be wanting in his Homer to record the workings of his vast and dire (Dyer) indignation. Let him summon Mr. Elliot from Sheffield to sing the wrath of Greg, and pn epic of the cotton mills may grow up to astonish and inform the most distant posteri:y!—,,liorning Post. Mr. W. Denison, M.P., is recovered from his re cent alarming illness. (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) TIMES.—The fall of the exchanges having now reached the point which will allow of the exportation of the precious metals at a profit to the continent, and the neces sity of that form ofremittance being otherwise obvious, som e ' disquietude on the subject is beginning to arise in the City, as there are no indications at present how far it may be re quisite to carry such exportation before the level of the fo reign exchanges shall thereby be restored. In general the calculation is, that the exportation must be very extensive indeed, on a reference merely to the cause from which it arises, which is the demand for grain front abroad, as that is independent of the ordinary demands of commerce, and does not, like them, easily adjust itself by other operations. The whole question is referable to the situation of the Bank of England, and to the degree in which it may be able to furnish the supply of the precious metals which must now be required, without taking any violent alarm for the result, and resorting to any sudden contraction of the circulation. If the Bank should be driven to such a course, there exists a state of things out of doors ill qualified to meet the consequences of it, for it is notorious that there has occurred much overtrading among the joint-stock banks of issue both in thin country and iu Ireland, which must react upon them if strain is put upon the circulation. There is also much cause of uneasiness among our wary and judicious merchants from the state of things both in Belgium and in France, to which atten tion has been repeatedly drawn under this head, and where a powerful reaction would seem to be inevitable, as well as much nearer at hand than it can possibly be in this country. The people of those countries, it should be ob served, are wholly unused to reverses of that nature, the system being quite now to them, and much more mis chievous consequences are expected therefore to succeed a panic than in England, where the almost periodical recur rence of such events may be said to have somewhat seasoned the monied interest to the exertion required to meet them. Their misfortunes, however, cannot but be felt more or less in this country, and add to the derangement of the circu lation with which we are threatened from other ceuses. Altogether, the period is one which should induce all men in business to avoid speculative operations, and keep all their means as available as possible until the state of the foreign exchangesshall assume a more favourable apparance. The transactions in the funds to-day were of some im portance, and the quotations improved. In consequence of some considerable purchases by panics who bad pre viously operated for the fall, Consols advanced at one part of the day to 941, but receded at the close to 94 to. Bank Stock was 2022 to 3. India Stock, 262 to 3. Ex chequer Bills, 655. to 675. premium. Mr. Waghorn's portion of the overland despatch has been received to-day by way of M The dates are the same as those to the India-house scone days since by the same despatch, forwarded from Malta by special mes• senger, being from Bombay to the 2d of November, and from Calcutta to the 21st of October. N further politi cal news is therefore brought by this arrival, nor any ac counts of field movements beyond those already known. The commercial intelligence generally is not favourable. Markets for manufactured goods were dull. Owing to the uncertain state of affairs on the north-west notifies, there had been a considerable depression in stocks, par ticularly in the Four per Cents., which had fallen to 5 or 6 discount. The country people had evinced so much eagerness to sell, that it was with difficulty i.urchasers could be found. Treasury biils on Londo❑ at 30 days' sight were Is. 11d. per Company's rupee. CHRONICLE.—Some rather extensive purchases of Consols have been made to-day, both by the Government and by other brokers, which had the effect of adssmcing the quotation to 94* to g, but the market did not continue so buoyant until the close of business, and thv last price was 94 to A broker, who usually transacts the large busi ness for the Catholic party, made some purchases in the morning, which were supposed to have been fir the purpose of closing a large " bear" operation on account of persons at the west end. Exchequer Bills have again risen to 655. to. 675. prem. ; Bank stock remains at 2021 to 203. There has also been a good deal of business transacted in Foreign Securities. Belgian Stock is rather lower, but Dutch Securities are on the advance. Spanish Stocks are also a shade higher, hopes being entertained by the frequenters of this market that a change in the French Ministry will lead to a favourable alteration in the aspect of Spanish affairs The annexed were the last prices : Spanish Active, 164 to 1 ; Portuguese Five per Cents. 30 to 1 ; ditto Three per Cents., 191 to 20 ; Dutch Five per Cents., 1004 to 101 ; ditto Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54* to 55* ; Belgian, 99 to 991 ; Brazilian, 77 to 771 ; Colombian, 251 to 26 ; 25 to 26 ; Mexican, 223 to 231 ; and Peruvian, 16 to 17. Shares on the whole present more animation, and the principal railway undertakings have advanced a little. Birmingham, old, left off at 76 to 78 prem. ; ditto, new, 231 to 241 prem. ; Southampton, 441 to 451 per share ; ditto, new, 191 to 201 prem. ; Great Western, 11 to 12 prem. ; Leeds and Manchester, 18 to 20 prem. ; Birmingham and Derby, 10 to 8 dis. ; Bri g hton, 3 a to 3 dis. ; Blackwall, • to 1 s dis. ; North Midland par to I prem. ; South Eastern, 6 to 5 die. ; Glasgow and Ayr shire, 3 to 2 dis. ; Glasgow and Greenock, 1 dis. to prem. ; Croydon, 134 to 141 per share, and Greenwich, 164 to 174 per share. The commercial accounts from our East Indian presi dencies, furnish much information respecting the various markets. From Calcutta we learn that all kinds of grain had experienced a considerable advance in price in cons& wience of the demand for the army about to take the field. Very extensive shipments of rice had also been made to the Mauritius, Bourbon, Bombay, and the Persian Gulf. As regards cotton, which is of importance at this moment, when there is so much business going on in this article, the, accounts from the western provinces report, it is stated " the probable failure of the crop, or rather diminution in produce in the expected crop, owing to the want of the usual rains." There is every reason to expect, it is stated, that the crop of indigo will not exceed 85,000 maunds. About six chests of native manufacture, Kishnaghan pro duce, had arrived, and sonic supplies from the European fac tories in that neighbourhood were shortly expected. The price of indigo was expected to be from 40 to 60 rupees per fy. maund above the rates of last year. The market for European goods was generally unfavourable. The banks were advancing freely on produce bills ; upon Messrs Baring, brothers, six months date, to the amount of about 12,0001., had been negotiated at 2s. lid. to 2s. lid. per rupee ; but there was very little going on in exchanges. Treasury and Navy bills, in small amounts, had been sold at 2s. per rupee. Bank of England shares had declined, but those of the Union Bank had advanced. The price of the former was 3,000 to 3,100 rupees prem. ; and the latter 185 to 200 prem. The rate of discount on Government and salary bills was 4 per cent. per annum ; and on private bills and notes, not exceeding one month, 7 per cent. ; ditto, two months, 8 per cent. ; and ditto, three months, 8 and 9 per cent. Interest charged on loans on Company's paper, 5 per cent. per annum ; on metals, indigo, and opium, 6 per cent., and other goods 7 per cent. There was no scarcity of bullion. It was reported that the Government had opened a loan at Agra, at 6 per celt. per annum, for forty days, for the • expenses of the war, that there might be no delay in furnishing the troops with trea sure. P OST.—The Money Market in India has been unset tied, and the Exchange was lower, but it was pretty cer tain that as the shipments of produce proceeded a re-action in the latter would be found to take place. It was con ceived that, for the moment, there was co very great cause for apprehension, with regard to the possible issue of the campaigns about to be und er t a k en i n t h e quarters a b ove al luded to ; but caution was nevertheless deemed necessary from the uncertainty which must at the best exist upon this point, when the troops shall once have cre.ssed th e bar rier by which the British dominions are separated from those of the Chiefs who have shown so little respect for her Majesty's Repr% sentatives at their respective Courts. No difficulty with Gourka and the Burmese is expected. A Bombay letter of the Ist of Nov., toan eminent commercial house stet es that t he advices brought by the Berenice steamer, which had arrived out with dates to the 7th Sept., had pro duced but little effect on the marketsthere, which were in a more distressed state than they were remembered ever to have been at the same season of the year. Produce gene • rally was by no means abundant, and there was, it might be said, literally nothing doing either in export s or i mports, while the harbour was d a ily receiving an accession of ton nage, for which there was no immediate prospect of employ ment. The monsoon had proved an extraordinardv dry one all over the whole of western India, although the dis tress in particular districts was not so severe as in others. The consequent scarcity of water and forage, and the failure of the crops (in a greater or less degree) in the whole country from Cape Comorin to the Indus was found to have in every point of view a most prejudicial influence on trade. The unsatisfactory state of our political rera tions with Persia, and a chance of the stoppage of the trade with that country—the interruption to the traffic in Britsh goods with the countries in Central Asia, and those bordering on the Indus, from the hostile movements on the north-west frontiers deterring the Marwarries, through whose country this very valuable branch of the Bombay trade passes, from entering into new cperations—added to which the not very encouraging accounts of the home markets—formed the principal causes of the existing stag nation at that which is usually a busy period of the year. It was deemed very unlikely, however, that this state of things would be of long duration. It was expected that when tranquillity should be restored in Affghanistan, and sh,,l, si„,-jA r ,-- ,t• fl f , ; '.,- t::,-, ,c t:, , r,: , .1- ! mercial treaty with th a t co u n t r y wou ld b e concluded, highly advantageous to the trade of Bombay —more particularly 1 T_HE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1838 MONEY AND CITY NEWS. as merchandise will be protected in its transit through his dominions, and the tedious and expensive land carriage (which puts a stop - in a great measure to the transit of heavy or bulky articles) exchanged for the cheap and easy conveyance by water, the practicability of the navigation of tha Indus and its admirable adaptation to steam-vessels being now satisfactorily established. The exchange, Bom bay on England, for six months' bills, is quoted at 2s. per rupee. _ - SECOND • ARREST of the REV. J. R. STEPHEN'S. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) MANCHESTER, TEN O'CLOCK, THURSDAY EVENING. This morming two Bow-street officers arrived in this neighbourhood, armed with a warrant from the Secre tary of State, for the apprehension of the Rev. J. R. Stephens, of Ashton-under-Line. The caption was ef fected without the least uproar, or even suspicion, till the thing was effected. He was conveyed to Worsley for examination, and from this circumstance there can be little doubt but that this arrest is in consequence of some proceedings at Leigh, about two or three week's since, on which occasion it is well-known that the srech (which has not, that I am aware of, appeared in any Journal) was untisudly piquant. Whether the examination will be private I cannot say ; but if not, 3on will, of course, have information of what trans pires. It is understood here that a sort of preliminary investigation will take place this evening. All the Magistrates of the district, however, ate sum moned to meet to-morrow, and, as far as information goes, at Worsley. Should the proceedings be pri vate, which is most probable, you must be content with the on dits of the day. I shall endeavour to be a diligent caterer. Mr. OASTLER is in Manchester, and has been in the neighbourhood now nearly a fort night. There is not the least excitement here in con sequence of these proceedings. PRACTICAL RESULTS of the LATE CORN LAW MEETING IN MANCHESTER. The Manchester Corn-law Association came to the resolution, on Monday evening last, to rent an exten sive and elegantly fitted room, in Newall's-buildings, Manchester, folmerly occupied as .an under-writer's room, for the practical demonstration of the statements male by Mr. Cobden, Mr. Greg, and Mr. J. J. Smith, at the late Corn-law repeal meeting. There will be exhibited, for public inspection, the productions of foreign countries, consisting chiefly of cotton goods, woollens, silks, hardware, &c., with the prices of such articles, duty paid, as well as the cost at the place of their manufacture. In juxtapo sition will be placed articles of Briti: h manufacture, having cost the same price. The dullest political economist will then be able to perceive whether the alarming statements lately made lye th?ir foundation in fact ; or whether they are m.•re chimeras. Were no other result to rise out of the late discussion, than the exhilLtion of the various productions of our manufacturing rivals, with the value of each article attached—and such should prove the means of giving t. 3 the operative and the capitalist a just notion of what is passing i❑ the manufacturing world—such information will he invaluable, inasmuch as it would remove ail f4lse notions, if any should happen to exist, that there is no danger of our commercial career being retarded ; and it has been the general opinion so long, that it would seem perfectly hopeless to anticipate a removal of the film without the most positive akA infallible demonstration. • MANCHESTER.-(THIS DAY.) During the last week, a desideratum long wanted by m my has been supplied to the inhabitants of Chorlton-on- Medlock, a township within the Borough of Manchester, containing upwards of 40,000 residents, by the opening of a News-room and Library, on a large scale, (called the Chorlton Lyceum). It is remarkable that, amid such a population, not a single News-room had an existence till that in question was opened. It is intended mainly for the operative mechanics; but the premises are so fitted up, and the suites of rooms so extensive, as to afford good ac commodation for the higher classes. The premises were specially built for the residence of the late Samuel Mars land, Esq. The Trustees of the Lyceum have engaged them at a rent of one hundred and fifty pounds per annum. The subscribers already exceed 800 ; and the annual subscription is limited to Bs. per annum. By the close of the year the library will contain above one thousand volumes. The rooms have been fitted up by the donations of the rich and middle classes. It is also intended to afford at least eight lectures, with an occasional concert. This is the second News-room which has been established during the la s t s i x weeks, having in view the same objects. It is also intended, as soon as arrangements can be completed, to open three or four similar establishments in other parts of the borough. Tea and coffee are supplied to the sub scribers. ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY IN MANCHESTER.—A few days since a preliminary meeting, consisting of a few scien tific gentlemen, was held, for the purpose of establishing an Astronomical Society in Manchester, with a splendid observatory. James Heywood, Esq., the brother of Sir Benjami❑ Heywood, has, we believe, the merit of first sug gesting the desirableness of such an institution. There is no doubt, from what has already transpired, that the pro position will be liberally responded to. ANCHESTER CATTLE MARKET, DEC. 26. Th e show of Stock was unusually small, but as that s i n general the case the first market after Christmas, it caused no effect, as the buyers did not want their usual. quantity. All was cleared off, however, and Beef sold at 4id, sinking the offal 61d per lb., and Mutton 54d, sinking the offal 74d. Beasts, 955 ; Sheep, 2,555 ; Calves, 35 Total, 3,545. GREAT POPULAR DEMONSTRA- TION IN NEWCASTLE. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Newcastle, Dec. 26, 1838. At an early hour the town gave signs of unusual life and bustle, and long before the appointed hour of meeting vast crowds assembled on the Sand-hill and adjoining street. At twelve o'clock the procession, joined by the south, east, and west, moved from the Sand-hill, joined by a large number of bands, and an array of banners, which for beauty and effect never was equalled in Newcastle. Among the rest was con spicuous the large green flag of the Hibernian Society, re markable by the absence of Daniel' O'Connell's name, which was expunged by the gallant Hibernians, from a conviction that the traitor has long since deserted the cause of the Labouring people. The Feling Working Man's Associa tion displayed a beautiful silk tri-coloured flag. Among the mottos were the followirr , :—" Let every man enjoy what he has honestly tealized."—" Liberty, or I shall make my arrows." ";Drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh."—" May the brave Soldier • never be the tool of oppression. He that has no sword, let him sell his garment and by one. War in each breast and freedom in each brow. Universal civil rights, and religious liberty. " What mean ye that ye beat my. people, and grind the faces of the poor, saith the Lord God of Hosts. Beat your swords into plough-shares, and your spears into pruning-hooks"—" To your tents, 0 Israel!"-- " Who robbed Canada, burnt the Churches, and con , sumed the bodies of her dead ? The base and brutal Whig , ." On the top of a spear was a loaf of bread marked Price Sixpence, and the inscription—" This is what the landlords have brought us to ;" and on the other side, it is better to die with the sword than perish with hunger. The procession was the most splendid, and by far the most numerous, that ever graced Newcastle. Its distinguishing characteri s ti c was t h e d enseness of i ts ranks in all the wide streets of Newcastle; we counted not less than thirty abreast whilst it moved from the foot of Modev-street to the market head of Northumberland street, a distance of more than a mile, whilst all those that were too late for the procession made their way to wards the Forth, and covered the road and waters in the neighbourhood of the hustings. As the entrance into the Forth field is by a narrow gate, by which no more than three or four can pass abreast, tile procession was dammed up at the entrance, a great nriny went and took refreshments., knowing they could not get near the hustings, iudeed, the outside of the crowd kept coutinually moving off as they could not hear a word, whilst the place was occupied by a constant making way for others when they found they were beyond the reach of the voce. From what we observed, we are of opinion that the crowd in front of the hustings was regulated by the pitch of the voice more than any other circumstance. There could not IL: less than seventy or eighty thousand stalwart Radi cals, although six or eight meetings were held on the same day in the County of Durham, making preparations for demonstration on New Year's Day. • l! , ' „laLife • 1 1 :tits:Ea, was called to the Chair. The Meeting was addressed by Messrs. Cockburn ; 2d Regiment of Dragoons—. Lieutenant M. G. Adams to be Captain, by purchase, vice Miller, who retires; Cornet J. Camp bell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Adams, Dec. 28. 12th Regiment of Light Dragoons— Cornet W. Miller to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Calley, who retires; Gentleman Cadet D. A. Monro, from the Royal Military College, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Miller, Dec. 28. 15th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieutenant H. W. S. Lown. des to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sparling, who retires ; Cornet A. S. Murray to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lowndes; J. G. Townsend, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Murray, promoted, Dec. 28. 12th Regiment of Foot.—Lieut. S. Reed, from the 54th Regi ment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice W. Woods, who retires upon half-pay of the 54th Regiment of Foot, Dec. 28. 14th Foot—T. E. Holmes, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wale, appointed to th e 33d R eg i men t o f F oo t, Dec. 28. 16th Foot--Captain A. D. Colley, from the 26th Regiment of Foot, to be Captain, vice Mylius, who exchanges, July 2. 19th Foot—Major T. Hamilton to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by pur chase, vice Raper, who retires ; Capt. S. J. Hodgson, to be Major, by purchase, vice Hamilton; Lieut. J. D. Simpson, to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Hodgson ; Ensign, J. Cochrane to b e Lieutenant, by pur c h ase , v i ce Si mpson ; Ensign R. J. S. Man sergh, from the 2d West India Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Cochrane, Dec. 28. 20th Foot—Lieut. L. M. Kerr, from the 96th Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Chambre, who exchanges, Dec. 28. 26th Foot—Captain G. Mylius, from the 16th Regiment of Foot, to be Captain, vice Colley, who exchanges, July 2 ; Captain W. White, from the half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice M. Al'lnnes, who exchanges, receiving the difference, Dec. 28. 33d Foot—Lieutenant G. A. Vernon to be Captain, by pur chase, vice Sathwell, who retires ; Ensign E. A. Milman to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Vernon ; Ensign R. G. Wale, from the 14th Regiment of Foot, to be Ensign, vice Millman, Dec. 28. 39th Foot—Lieutenant M. G. Nixon to be Captain, by purchase, vice Spencer, who retires; Ensign F. H. Cox to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Nixon; R. H. Currie, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Cox, Dec. 28. 46th Foot—Ensign A. Maxwell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Campbell, promoted in the 9.5 th Regiment of Foot ; Gentle men Cadet W. Fitzgerald, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Maxwell, Dec. 21. 47th Foot—John F. de Courcy, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Elliott, who retires, Dec. 28. 58th Foot— Serjeant J. IVFLerie, from the Scots Fusilier Guards, to be Adjutant, with the rank of Ensign, vice Grant, who resigns the Adjutancy only, Dec. 28. 59th Foot--Lieutenant C. J. C. Mills, from the half-pay Un attached, to be Lieutenant, vice J. G. Rogers, who exchanges, re ceiving the difference, Dec. 28. 61st Foot—Captain J. Campbell, from the 95th Regiment of Foot, to be Captain, vice Dalgetty, who exchanges, Dec. 28. 66th Foot—Major T. H. Johnston to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Baird, who retires ; Captain T. L. Goldie to be Major, by purchase, vice Johnston ; Lieutenant J. Parker to be Captain, by purchase, vice Goldie, Dec. 28 ; Ensign and Adjutant Hon. E. A. F. H. Lambart to have the rank of Lieutenant, Dec. 27 ; Ensign F. C. Trench to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Parker ; B. Langton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Trench, Dec. 21. 67th Foot—T. H. Wheeler, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Duncan, whose appointment has not taken place, Dec. 28. 70th Foot—Lieutenant R. H. Dyke, from the 54th Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice J. L. Wilton, who retires upon half-pay of the 54th Regiment of Foot, Dec. 28. 75th Foot—W. Hardinee, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Guise, who retires, Dec. 28. 84th Foot—Captain C. Franklyn to be Major, by purchase, vice Bernard, who retires; Lieutenant S. J. Goslin to be Captain, by purchase, vice Franklin ; Ensign G. Reynolds to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Egan, who retires • Ensign G. F. Harrison to be Lieutenant, by p urc h ase, vice Franklyn ; J. W. Monck, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Reynolds, Dec. 28. 88th Foot-14. P. L'Estranee, Gent. to be Ensign by purchase, vice Dickson, who retires, Dec. 28. 89th Foot—Lieut. C. G. King to be Captain, without purchase, vice Pearson, deceased ; Ensign W. H. Thornton to be Lieutenant, vice King, Nov. 1 ; Quartermaster-Serjeant J. Newbury to be Ensign, vice Thornton, Dec. 28. 94th Foot—Ensign W. H. Kirby to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Mills, promoted; S. Lyster, Gent., to be Ensign, by:pur chase, vice Kirby, Dec. 28. 95th Foot—Capt. J. W. Dalgety, from the 61st Regiment of Foot, to be Captain, vice Campbell, who exchanges, Dec. 28. 96th Foot—Ensign W. S. Nicholson to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Tarleton, deceased, Dec. 19 ; Lieut J. Chambre, from the 20th Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Lord M. Kerr, who exchanges ; Serjeant-Major J. Pursloe to be Ensign, vice Nicholson Dec. 28. 2d West India Regiment—O. C. O'Brien, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Mansergh, appointed to the 19th Regiment of Foot, Dec. 28. UNATTACHED. Lieut. S. Mills, from the 04th Regiment of Foot, to be Cap tain, by purchase, Dec. 28. Lieut. W. Briggs, from the 50th Regiment of Foot, to be Cap tain, without purchase, Dec. 23. 3 IEMORANDUM.—For Ensign R. S. Cole to be Lieutenant, in the 6th Foot, vice White, promoted, as stated in the Gazette of the 25th December, 1838, read Ensign R. S. Cole to be Lieute nant, in the 6th Foot, vice Barry, who retires, Dec. 25. Captain Donald M'Lachlan, upon half-nay Unattached, has been permitted to retire from the army, with th• sale of his commission, he being about to settle in New South Wales, Dec. 28. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. JOSEPH JOHNSON, saddler, Cockermouth. WILLIAM MARSH, hosier, Wolverhampton. BANKRUPTS. GEORGE GLADWYM, grocer, Billericay, Essex, to surren der Jan. 15, at twelve, and Feb. 8, 'at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, Basinghall-street, official assignee; Rixon and Son, Jewry-street, ELIZABETH BURCHATT, lodging-house-keeper, Ed wardes-square, Kensington, Middlesex, Jan. 4 and Feb. 8, a eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, Aldermanbury, official assignee ; Hanley, Lothbury. JOHN HUDDLESTON, builder, Nottingham, Jan. 10 and Feb. 8, at twelve, at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham. Wolston, Furnival's-inn, Holborn. London; Smith, Nottingham. WILLIAM BENJAMIN REEVE, victualler, Brighton, Jan. 5, and Feb. 8, at one, at the Town-hall, Brighton. Faithful], Brighton ; Faithfull, King's-road, Bedford-row, London. JAMES THRELFALL and WILLIAM OLI VER, tailors, Manchester, Jar.. 16, and Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. Still, Lincoln's-inn, London ; Rowley and Taylor, Manchester. JOHN CRESWELL, sen., coal-merchant, Canterbury, Jan. 3, and Feb. 8, at twelve, at the Guildhall, Canterbury. Kirk, Sy mood's-inn, Chancery-lane, London ; Wilkinson, Canterbury. CHARLES TERRY, quill merchant, Shoe-lane, London, Jan. 17 and Feb. 8, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gibson, Basinghall-street, official assignee ; Ashurst and Gainsford, Cheap side. PHILIP ROGER ATCHERLEY, mercer, Whitchnrch, Salop, Jan. 14 and Feb. 8, at eleven, at Shire-hall, Shrewsbury. Vin cent and Sherwood, Temple, London ; Harper and Jones, Whit church, Salop. COAL MARKET.--(THIS DAY.) Ships arrived since': Per Ton. a. a. Pensham Gareslibld l9 0 Prudhoe Main 2O 6 Willington ylaun '22 3 W - 1118 End Bewickc and Co , 0 C Wads End Heaton 23 ; Walls End Hilda Walls End Killingworth ...... 22 W:1:13 End Newnnach t:l 9 Walls End Percy Bensham 22 W,lis End Riddell's Todd's Bensham lB 6 Walk End I\4iker "3 0 Lambton's Primrose last market-day. :12. Per .1 in: a, d Walls End Braddyll's Hetton 25 0 Walls End Hetton 0 Walk End Lambt,ri Walls End Bussel's Hetton 25 0 Walls Eit,lStewar's z ,s Walls End Hartlepool 25 3 Walk End Ad,laide 24 0 Walls End Barrett Walls End Flintaff Tees 23 0 Walls End South Durham— 23 6 Walls End Tees ...... .. 24 3 Walls End West Helton Blythe l7 Hart ley Howard's Netherton Main l9 6 COURSE OF EXCH.' Amsterdam C.F. 12 4 Ditto, at sight flottcr,lani 2U. :2 434 Antwerp... 1 - 1 - arnburg. ...... ........ il. B l3 1036 Alton , Paris, ;3 days' sight. 25 se Dittc 3 Ms. 25 70 Marseilles Bourdeaux Frankfurt on Maine, Ex. 31 1514 Peters:mug:l, rub1e......3 Us 1(1% Berlin Vienna, effective 11......2 M lO 7 Critste ditto lO 9 fil,airir l m 14 Cadiz.... 11111 , va .... ..... ............ LIVGE.-( THIS DAY.) ;4ihraltar of Leghorn... ... Genoa 25 80 Milan 3; Venice 43 Naples ... 40 Palermo per oz. 118 Lisbon s3ii Oporto s 3lk Rio Janeiro i 5 Bahia 26 Buenos Ayres New York, 21 days' sight Philadelphia 46 OF BULLION, VER OZ. P , rtugal Gold, coin '0 0 0 fortagc Gold, in bars 317 111% N 7.W iiO7.lblOOL.S New UniLau ........... 0 4 14% Silver, bars, standard 0 5 ca,, Bani,!otia SeTWe MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Prire Current of thig evening.) SUGAR. —In the British Plantation market business has been suspended since this day week, but will commence on Tuesday next. The Gazette Average Price is now 35s 10d, against 41s 41d in 1837, and 35s 5:1-41 in 1836. REFINED. —The few trifling parcels taken have been at former rates. For Double Gushed there is still no price. Treacle, Bastards, and Piece are unaltered in value. MAURITIUS.—The opet:ations have been confined to a few small second hand parcels taken by the grocers at previous rates. EAST INDIA.-In Bengal for Auction on Tuesday 4 700 bags are declared. Manilla is wanted at late prices. Siam is held firmly. FOREIGN—YeIIow Havannah, 100 boxes of good strong quality sold at 28s Gd ; for white there is no demand, and in Brazil nothing has been done. COFFEE.—In British Plantation there has been no actual business doing ; East India is held firmly ; and Ceylon has been sought after by the Grocers-2,600 bave been disposed of by private contract at 96s to 98s for good and fine ordinary. In Mocha prices there is no change. Full prices are required for Brazil and St. Domingo. MOLASSES.--ID West India we have few transactions to re port ; full prices, however, must be paid. COCOA.-Business of moment in Foreign is prevented by the short supply. West India as last quoted. TEA.-The Prompt was due today, and it w as a h eavy one. Ti:., ..ca:(•;•1•.• • • • - • Bidcii or Green '1 ea, buyers vcaitiots tor the public sales, which take at the Commercial Sale Rooms on Monday week, SPIRITS.—Rum, to purchase, full prices m ust be paid for Jimaica and Lecwards. Brandy at presi , ous quotations. Geneva as last quoted. British Corn Spirits.wihthout alteration. Hanson, from Carlisle ; Ayr ; Parker ; and Thomason. Robt. Laway, Dr. John Taylor, and George Julian Har vey, were chosen Delegates to the National Convention. Resolutions were passed, comprising a vote of confidence in O'Connor and Stephens, to support the Convention, and in favour of Universal Suffrage. A tea party took place in the New Music Hall, which was crowed to excess. Several patriotic toasts were responded to, and at a late hour the meeting separated. • THIRD EDITION. SUNT OFFICE, Seven o'Cloed THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 28. at eleven o'clock. The deliveries cnnrinue large, and 144 week amounted to 422,000 lbs. There has been one are 1 0 1 this week. TALLOW.—For P. Y. C. on the spot tler , has been a ft ,ir de mend from the town and country trade, who have paid AI 9d to 59s for first quality. For delivery in the three first moi itbS or next year 59s is demand( d, but at which there are got many purchasers. For October, November, and Decet Aber next 52s is asked, but buyers are not inclined to corun - lance operations at present. Town Tallow has riaintained oincr rates. PROVISIONS.—The arrivals of Butter from Ireland bare been rather large since last Friday, but impo rters refuse to submit to lower prices. The fine descriptions of Dittch have sold steadily, and buyers have been compelled to pay 1085. to 1103 for Friezland and Holstein. Bacon has maintained its former currency. In the prices of India Mess IBeef and Pork there is no change. OILS —Common Fish Oils, fully equal to those of list week; Sperm at advanced rates; Linseed at 28s; Rape at former rates; Olive is held firmly ; East India Cocoa Nut i 5 held firmly at 52s a 53s per cwt. funtoo.—The demand for East India in tlae• face of the public sale of 8,850 chests has again been very - , limited, both for home use and export. Importers, however, remain firm and will not sell excepting at an advance on C tctober deg prices of is 2d a Is 3d per lib. SPICES. —Black Pepper continues in pond n -quest at the rates previously established. Pimento remains ne , glected, but there are no sellers at lower prices. In other articles not much has been done. SALTPETRE. —There are still ready buyers of rough, but the short supply checks business, several part els o. f Calcutta have been disposed of since our last report at 25s Bd to 275 accord;ng to refraction, the deliveries for home use ,continue large; the stock is on the decrease, and it is now 300 to n `' less than in 1837 at this time. British Refined*. steady. RICE.—The advices from Calcutta representing that the shipments would be small for some time, cause. holders her* to require full prices for descriptions of East II iclia ; but there , has again been only a limited business doing, good white Bengal is held for 19s a 20s. Carolina has maintained late rates. POLICE INTELLIG ENCE. Q UEEN- S Q UARE:. George Mwzday, a man about .50 yea rs of age, dressed as a countryman, was placed at the bar :upon the following charge. The appearance of the prisoner was most singular. He had suffered his hair to grow to an ex- traordinary length► which was parted with extreme neatness s in the centre of his forehead, and fell on either shoulder . His beard was also cut in the Vandyke style. Police constable 98 A stated that 'km was on duty a t Charing-cross, about half-past nine o'cloe.k yesterday morn ing, when he saw the defendant go down o,n his knees in the carriage-way, take out a book, which ap pe,ared to him to he a Bible, and begin to preach in a loud tone. His extraor dinary conduct collected a considerable crowd, and witness attempted to persuade him to desist, w hich was met by an answer from the prisoner that he had ", come there to sot: the inhabitants, and to warn them of the northern oral. He then took him into custody. On his vay to the station' house he behaved in the same extraordinr try manner. , Mr. GREGOR IE asked the prisoner what he was, an d where he came from. Prisoner took out a Bible, opened it, an then said b e was a shoemak e r, an d came f rom fifteen milts below gala' stone. His object was to pray for the inhabitants, sav e them from the wrath to come, and prepare them for the great army which is coming from the north. Mr. GREGORIE—This cannot be allowed. If I let yo go now, will you go home ? Prisoner (seriously)—l can' not promise that ; it i s j us t as th e sp i r it wills. I !vigi l " say I would go home, and before I had got out of this office the Spirit would tell me to go down on my kilees, and P 1 for you all, as Ido now. Oh ! I hope you ve ill take wars' ing, and remember the army is coming from the no rth.--* The prisoner was proceeding in this strain, when Mr. Glti gorie observed the only course he could adopt was to 13° the prisoner to bail. The prisoner was then removed, THE MARKETS COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK Wheat. Barley. oats. I B ea , Peas , —___— Per Quarter. s. to s. c, s. s. to s. a. to a. s. to Blandford 72 80 32 35 25 27 137 46 e 6 74 2t 26 24 3() 42 44 3 0 Cambridge 75 34 25 40 3S 40 Chard 54 St 29 34 20 22 42 44 a Fiuntingdon—....... 56 70 34 38 24 29 38 42 Long Sutton...—. 58 78 16 20 30 34 -- -- Louth 58 68 26 32 20 24 35 42 — B4 ynn 56 67 22 31 16 20 30 32 32 Newark 62 72 24 31 19 es 31 43 ' Nottingham 64 '79 28 31 19 28 35 42 Peterborough 59 72 35 42 22 29 38 43 Plymouth 58 70 30 34 20 23 - Pontefract= 67 42 27 43 Sleaford 65 70 26 38 22 28 4) 43 Uppingham j 63 74 24 30 12 2ft 32 44 -- Wiebech I 63 72 I 20 20 DEVIZES CORN MARKET.—Dec. 27 Per Sack. s • at. B. d. Per Quarter. $ First Wheat 4l oto 43 0 Barley 3O 0 to 40 0 Second '37 0 39 0 Oats on n DEVIZES CORN MARKET.— ' lee. 27 Per Sack. s• d. 8. d. Per Quarter, s. d, s. a First Wheat 4l oto 43 0 Barley 3O 0 to 40 0 Second . 4 . 7 0 99 0 Oats 2O 0 2 1 g Third 1360 Sacks of Wheat sold/ 37 10 i Flour r ha .. 58 ) ( 8 1 _6O at the average of Bread LEEDS CORN MARKET.. Dee. 24 Norfolk and Sutfidk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 h. Norfolk and Suilblk 36s. to .',9 , . ta- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans Oats, Potatoe ii, is 28i.J —Mealing, For. lid. tol 1%,1 Shelling Eng. 12d. 1 '!.d t l e 34 i „ pe p r e r i Z . : Rapeseed, English. 301. to 321 ... Foreign, 00t to 3,T. pe r las LiVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—D ec . 24. 13 5 . 31 ' WHEAT, English, White, per 700. .-------- Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx 0 Irish, White lO 9 i ' 3 -- Red • 9 3 10 ? 4 . , .. Foreign ..... . 9 12 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 9 4 5 Irish .., 4 2 0 Foreign 0 0 0 o 46 ISARLEY, English, Melting, per imp. quarter 4O 9 ~; 0 Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs. Feeding 5 3 ,II BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 5O 0 '''' 0 Irish, &c. - 0 46 0 Foreign ~ PEASE, Englisn, per Imperial quar t er 52 0 "" o --- Forei g n FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 6O 0 "g '" 0 Irish .., 0 OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 36 a '" 0 INDIAN CORK, per 4401 b. Rya, per Imperal quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter 52 0 '' , [IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending Dec. 24 CA Wheat. Wheat. I Oats. Barley Fl eur. 0 ,6 ' 1 Ors. 1 Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, nrlad Irish, &c. , cke L"" . ' _.........! 4,021 I 2,916 3,951 , 1,5.. 45 0 1 1 1,894 Wheat, Barley, FOREIGN SPIRITS, HIGHLAND MAL T ' and CORK WHISKIES, in Glass Bottles, at per dozen :-. Choice Old Pale Brandy, as imported ... 725• Cognac Brandy (v ery o ld) Hollands, Schiedam Jamaica Rum 27e. to 3 3 Highland Malt Whiskey, I I per cent. over proof 40 Old Cork Whiskey 36 4 The above Whi s ki es are o ld i n b ott l e, possessing the i r o rigln strength, and have acquired a peculiar fine flavour. Single bottles may be had as samples. Bottles 3s. per dozen, Hampers Is. per dozen. CURRALL and SON, 35, Bishopsgate-street Within. PLAT, ED TCOVERS, 15 ABLE DISH Gn i f -„, the Set.—A. B. SAVORY and SONS Manufacturing 9""edr.. ) smiths, No. 14, C orn hill , L ondon (opposit e the Bank of E n g' au ; submit for c h o i ce i n t h e i r plate rooms, many patterns o f stroolf t _ plated TABLE DISH C O V E RS, with Silver handles and 500rof logs, and sto u t Sil ver s hi e ld s for engraving the Crest or C°" Arms, price from 15 guineas to 20 guineas the set of four.. coo. N.B. A Pampl e t o f th e P r i ces of Plate may be had en appliel PR I Z E CUP S.—New and Second-hand SI— A s . d PRIZE CUPS are off ere d a t very REDUCED PRl`janaPal electionsmay be made from a great variety, both of Siz e aker, terns, at T. COX SAVORY'S , Goldsmith, and Watt;hin 47, Cernhill, London (Seven Doors from Gracecb; r s e tp d h : s a t i reet) Drawings of C u p s w ill b e f orwarded i n answer to ao ap plication. Cir e : eth e r It is desirable L e tt ers f or Drawin should ni enti the Size or about th e P r i ce o f t h e Cup or Cups that matr q uire Drawing. d . On the 22d i ns t., at Hamble-cliff, the lady of BIRTHS. William pelf Webber, Esq., o f a son. On the 24th inst., at Streath am , th e w if e of the Rev. W odo ' house Ra ven , o f an i nfant, still born. On th e 26th inst., the lady of S. Arbouin. Esq., of a son. At Port-au-P r i nce , H ayt i , on th e I.6th ult., the lady of Job Newman T wee d y , E sq. , hi s S w edish and Norwegian illajesty 1 Vice-Consul, of a son. On the 21st ult., in Glasgow College, the lady of Professor Badha 111 , of a son. ----- MARRIED. On the 27th inst., at Christ Church, St. Marylebone, Willis ° Beal, LL.D., and of Trinity College, Cambri e, to Mary A nn, dg eldest daughter of Mr. W. H. Smith, o f th e Strand, and Grove end-road. On the 22d inst. , at St. Luke' s Ch urc h , Ch e l sea , Henry Franc is Bowker, Esq., of Christ's H osp i tal, to Eliza Al i ce, e ld e st daugh ter of Charles Keep, Esq.' of the former place. o f On the 23d inst., at St. Pancra s , G. H. Kersselaers, Esq. , Queen-street, place. Golen-square, t o Mi ss F rances Weller, of Westo n- On the 25th inst., at St. Margaret's Westminster , Mr. E dwin John Good w i n, to Mary Ann , eldest daughter of Mr. Chibnall. ---- DIED. On the 20th ult., in Paris, James Mahon, Esq. : for many Yea rs an eminent merchant in the West Indies. Henry Iri November Allen, last, in Mad e i ra , Maaret, fourth daughter of the late Archib a ld C onstable, Esq., of Edinburgh. On the 12th i nst., i n B recon, age d 96, M ary, re li c t o f the Rei• D.D., late of Almely, in Herefordshire. On the 23d inst., in Blunham, Bedfordshire, aged 9, Adel aide Emily Sophia, y ounges t daughter of F. Polhill, Esq., M.P. ,_, On the 24th i ns t., i n S tore - street , Cl ara M ar i a , w idow of tn late Alexande r Pop e , E sq . of At Hampstead, o n th e 24th i ns t., Sa mue l R emn ant, Esq. , High-street, St. Giles, aged 82. and On the 24th in s t., a t th e S ou th- sea H ouse , age d o ne year eight months, Cath er i ne F rances , i n f an t d aug ht er o f George St e ' venson Ellis, Esq. ___-..4 Lo.kton . Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG of it s 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No 112, Strand, in thee ow of Middesex.—Friday, December 28, 1836. I SP